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Zoo Gorilla Killed

Vicky alerted me to a news story tonight. Yesterday a male gorilla (Samson) at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo struck and killed his three year old daughter (Baina). Workers attempted to save Baina, and she was brought to Omaha's Nebraska Medical Center, but she died.

The news story mentions that the female gorilla was rejected by her mother and then bottle fed while a baby. The two pictures in this blog entry were taken August 28th, 2005. I suppose this is probably the gorilla Baina when she was a baby.

We always enjoy a trip to the zoo, and we particularly enjoyed watching the baby gorilla being bottle fed by a human three years ago..